On Friday the 18th of September Netherlee Primary School had a Sports Assembly because we won the Gold SportScotland award. Kenny Brown from SportScotland handed over our award to Netherlee Sports Council and adult sports helpers who organise all of our sporting events with the help of Mrs McNeil, Mr Lawson and Mrs Scott. The Sports Council Reps are Ben Thomson, Johnny Greenwood, Ben Moulson and Rosemary Gold who play a huge part in our schools sports events.
Miss Bell (P6) gave up a career in Scottish hockey to become a teacher at Netherlee Primary School. Susan McGilvirie is a friend of Miss Bell’s and she played hockey for Scotland at the Commonwealth games in Glasgow in 2014. Susan McGilvirie now helps Miss Bell with the after school hockey for Primary 6 and 7.
Mr. Hay and Mrs. McNeil put together a memories-video full of special sporting events including a trip to see Andy Murray in the Davis Cup. It also had the Teachers versus Pupils in a game of Netball, highlights of the P5 Rugby Festival at GHA Rugby Club, The Ryder Cup festival that took place on our pitch, Choose Day Club and all the events from our Sports Week in June.
Next up, Mrs MacLeod and Mrs Callaghan led the school in a re-run of the dance we all learned during Sports Week. It was to ‘Shake It Off’ by Taylor Swift.
After this, the whole school participated in a parade around the pitch while singing ‘500 Miles’ by the Proclaimers; some classes were still in the Atrium while other classes were finishing their parade! The Sports Council led the school in the parade carrying the Gold Sports Award Flag, followed by the Adult Sports Helpers and finally by all the classes in the school.
The school worked so hard to get the Gold Sports Scotland award and Netherlee are so pleased to have such an amazing award, which is of such a high standing in all the school awards.
By Finlay, P7a
